Film review – X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | Cinema Autopsy Film review – X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) Comic book film adaptations recently have become very serious and respectable with The Dark Knight and Watchmen demonstrating that films based on comic books can possess a high degree of plausibility, complexity and human drama. So it is rather fun to get back to basics with the latest film from the X-Men franchise X-Men Origins: Wolverine, as it is good old-fashioned High Concept B-grade filmmaking. As the title of the film suggests, it is a prequel about the background of the popular Wolverine character (once again played very charismatically by Hugh Jackman), who has animal like instincts, the ability to heal almost instantly and deadly claw-like bones that protrude from between the knuckles of his hands. X-Men Origins: Wolverine reveals how Wolverine emotionally, mentally and physically becomes the character that he is when audiences first encountered him on the big screen in Bryan Singer’s 2000 film X-Men.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens with a brilliant credit sequence depicting Wolverine and his brother Victor Creed (who later becomes known as Sabretooth) fighting together through the American Civil War, two World Wars and then the Vietnam War. The sequence is shot in murky sepia tones and establishes that both men are not only seemingly invincible but love fighting. Wonderfully played by Liev Schreiber, Creed soon emerges as the most brutal of the pair and the inevitable brotherly showdown occurs after they are recruited into a covert government agency consisting of other mutants. This brotherly archetypal feud of course only escalates once a woman becomes involved. There is always a woman. While the characterisation in X-Men Origins: Wolverine is suitably simple yet empathetic, even for the minor characters, the narrative structure is the biggest flaw in this film. The pacing is all wrong and it feels more like a series of television episodes strung together rather than one film. Every 20 minutes there seems to be a revelation, shocking occurrence and then ‘final’ showdown. This does detract from the overall film, which is otherwise highly entertaining, albeit instantly forgettable.

Wolverine and Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) South African director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) handles the action in X-Men Origins: Wolverine extremely well. The first major action sequence feels like The Dirty Dozen with superpowers and there is lots of outlandish gunplay, swordplay, hand-to-hand combat and all manner of stunts, explosions and use of slow motion. Hood keeps the camera in on the actors tight, opting for more close-ups than you would usually expect during action scenes. As with all the X-Men films, the action is highly inventive even if it is all absurdly improbable. But, similar to Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted, this film is a load of fun if you accept that it is operating in a dimension where the laws of physics are the same as they would be in a cartoon. It is not as good as the second X-Men film but it is on par with the first and an improvement over the third.

© Thomas Caldwell, 2009 Meet the Characters of X-Men Origins: Wolverine << Movie & TV News and Interviews – Rotten Tomatoes Meet the Characters of X-Men Origins: Wolverine Learn all you need to know about Marvel mutants by Greg Dean Schmitz | April 22, 2009 | Comments X-Men Origins: Wolverine marks the fourth film appearance for Marvel’s most popular mutant. By now, you should be pretty familiar with Wolverine and his super-powered teammates from the previous X-Men movies, but unless you’re a comics aficionado, you might not recognize some of Logan’s other compatriots, such as Wade Wilson, John Wraith, and Agent Zero. And although Sabertooth, Stryker, and Cyclops have been seen on the big screen already, there are new actors playing those roles this time around. That’s why we’ve put together this rundown of the major players you’re going to see in the upcoming installment of the X-Men saga. WOLVERINE Real Name: Logan/James Howlett Played By: Hugh Jackman, the Australian actor/dancer/singer who rose to fame when he was cast as a then-unknown in 2000’s first X-Men film.

Noting that Wolverine’s personality had mellowed in X-Men: The Last Stand, Jackman has been quoted as being excited about playing Wolverine during his most feral days, comparing the performance to that of Robert De Niro’s in the Cape Fear remake. Powers: Super healing, regeneration, super senses, adamantium-infused skeleton, adamantium-infused claws and a berserker battle fury. In the Comics: For the first 25 years of Wolverine’s publication in Marvel Comics (first introduced in The Incredible Hulk #181, November 1974), Wolverine’s true origin story was one of comics’ greatest mysteries. As in the first three X-Men movies, readers were given bits of the puzzle over the years, but Wolverine’s true roots weren’t revealed until the 2001-2002 mini-series Origin, which detailed the events of Wolverine’s youth and young adulthood. The comics have also now depicted in many different ways Wolverine’s time as part of the Weapon X program, in which both he and Sabretooth were used as part of a military program to use mutants as super soldiers.

In the Movie: X-Men Origins: Wolverine borrows heavily from several of the comics that have dealt directly with Wolverine’s origin story, but reportedly also has some new or different elements, especially in the Weapon X era. This is, of course, to be expected, since the first three movies very much departed from the comics, de-aging characters like Angel and Iceman, and having Wolverine join the X-Men by himself, rather as a member of a completely new team (with Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, etc). SABRETOOTH Real Name: Victor Creed Played By: Liev Schreiber, an American stage and screen actor who is not previously known for starring in action movies, preferring instead to focus on characters better known for being cerebral than brawny. Schreiber, however, threw himself into preparing to play Sabretooth, bulking up with an extra 40 pounds of muscle through an intensive diet and exercise regimen. Liev Schreiber has been for a few years now dating British-Australian actress Naomi Watts, with whom he has had two sons, Sasha and Samuel.

Powers: Sabretooth’s powers (healing, regeneration, super senses) are nearly identical to those of Wolverine’s, except that he lacks Wolverine’s adamantium skeleton, and his claws are actually just longer fingernails, rather than claws that pop out of his arms like Wolverine’s. Sabretooth is also physically larger and inherently stronger than Wolverine. In the Comics: Like Wolverine, Sabretooth is a Marvel Comics character known to be much older than he appears, and his encounters with Wolverine go back as far as 1910. As in the movie, Sabretooth served with Wolverine in the Weapon X program, although he did not undergo the same extensive experimentation as Wolverine. After parting ways with Weapon X, Sabretooth spent the next decades working as an assassin, coming into conflict with Wolverine many times, until eventually (and controversially) becoming an X-Man himself. In the Movie: The most obvious departure for Sabretooth from the comics is the rumor that in the movie he is actually depicted as being Wolverine’s half-brother.

In the comics, Sabretooth is usually depicted as having blonde hair (as also depicted in the first X-Men movie), whereas Liev Schreiber has dark brown hair. STRYKER Real Name: Major William Stryker Played By: Danny Huston, the son of acclaimed director John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen), and the half-brother of Anjelica Huston. Although Danny Huston probably could have parlayed his famous last name into movie star status, he has instead focused on a career as a character actor in mostly supporting roles in movies like The Aviator, 21 Grams and Children of Men. Powers: None In the Comics: Before the release of X2: X-Men United, William Stryker was a relatively obscure character who had only appeared in the 1982 graphic novel X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills, as a Christian televangelist who has launched a campaign to destroy all mutants, who he sees as an abomination in the eyes of God.

In the Movie: Few X-Men characters were as changed from their comic book roots as William Stryker, who was used as the leader of Weapon X, the program responsible for giving Wolverine his adamantium skeleton, and the team that is central to much of the story of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. GAMBIT Real Name: Remy LeBeau Played By: Taylor Kitsch, a Canadian actor and model who appeared in Snakes on a Plane and is a regular cast member on NBC’s Friday Night Lights. Before Taylor Kitsch was cast, Josh Holloway (Lost’s Sawyer) had been in talks to play Gambit (and had also been offered the same role in X-Men: The Last Stand), but had to drop out in both cases due to conflicts with filming Lost. Powers: Gambit has the ability to imbue physical objects with energy, that he can then throw, which then results in an explosion on impact. Gambit’s preferred choice of thrown object are playing cards. In the Comics: An orphan who was raised by New Orleans’ Thieves Guild, Gambit took to travelling the world, using his mutant power to help him become a master thief.

Gambit was eventually taken in by the genius geneticist known as Mr. Sinister, who helped Gambit better control his powers. In return, Gambit joined a group of mutant assassins called The Marauders (along with Sabretooth). Gambit eventually reformed his criminal ways and joined the X-Men, where he fell in love with Rogue. In the Movie: Gambit’s portrayal in X-Men Origins: Wolverine seems to more or less match that of the comics, except that the timing suggests that he would be older than Cyclops, who in the comics seems about the same age as Gambit. There are also some pretty wild things that we see Gambit do in the trailer, like using his power on his staff to allow him to climb walls, and set off a devastating quake. Although most of X-Men Origins: Wolverine was filmed in Australia, the production moved to New Orleans for our Cajun mutant’s scenes. Gambit is also one of the two characters in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (along with Deadpool) who may also get his own franchise of solo movies.

DEADPOOL Real Name: Wade Wilson Played By: Ryan Reynolds, who has starred in many comedies as well as Hannibal King in Blade: Trinity. That was talked about at the time as a potential launch vehicle for Hannibal King, also a Marvel Comics character, but those plans have apparently been scrapped. Ryan Reynolds has also long been talked about as a possible star of DC Comics’ movie adaptation of The Flash. Powers: In the comics, Wade Wilson was not an actual mutant with super powers when he joined Weapon X, although he was a masterful weapons combatant and mercenary. Weapon X give Wade amazing regenerative abilities, but they went wild, causing him to be scarred and disfigured, and since his regeneration also affected his brain, also certifiably loony. Deadpool also went on to develop the ability to realize that he was a character in a comic book, leading him to sometimes break the fourth wall, talking to the reader, and becoming one of the most popular (and hilairous) characters in Marvel’s pantheon. In the Comics: Mercenary Wade Wilson joined Weapon X without being an actual mutant, but was also dying of cancer.

So, Weapon X put Wade through an intensive genetic treatment which gave him super regenerative and healing powers, but at the price of his skin growing so fast as to be a permanent mass of scars, which is what led Wade Wilson to put on a mask and start calling himself Deadpool. In the many years since, Deadpool’s adventures have brought him into contact with (or into conflict with) nearly all of the major figures in Marvel’s world of mutants, and some others who aren’t mutants at all. In the Movie: How Wade Wilson, AKA Deadpool, is being depicted is one of the hottest topics of discussion for Deadpool fans. There are rumors that Deadpool has been given powers that he does not have in the comics, but there are just as many rumors and speculation that the character in the trailer seen doing all that (watch out for Cyclops-like eye beams) is not actually Wade Wilson at all. Hopefully, whatever happens to Wade in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, he will come out of the movie with the potential to become the same “Merc with a Mouth that fans love in the possible spin-off Deadpool movie that has been in development for several years already.

Five Great X-Men Origins: Wolverine Character Profiles | FirstShowing.net Five Great X-Men Origins: Wolverine Character Profiles Source: MTV In three more weeks, the summer movie season will finally kick off with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which still has quite a bit of buzz, despite being leaked online. MTV has debuted five individual character profiles - 30-second video intros to five of the main characters we'll see in the movie. Just in case you didn't know who Wolverine or Sabretooth were (I really hope that's no one), these videos will provide you with a very quick introduction. In addition to those two, there are profiles on Gambit (played by Taylor Kitsch ), Deadpool aka Wade Wilson (played by Ryan Reynolds ), and Wraith (played by Will.i.am ). Enjoy! Wolverine: Deadpool: Wraith: Wolverine lives a mutant life, seeks revenge against Victor Creed (who will later become Sabretooth) for the death of his girlfriend, and ultimately ends up going through the mutant Weapon X program. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is directed by South African filmmaker Gavin Hood , of the Oscar winner Tsotsi and Rendition previously.

The script was written by veteran screenwriter David Benioff , of 25th Hour, Troy, and The Kite Runner previosuly. The character of Wolverine was first created by Len Wein and John Romita Sr. back in 1974. Fox will debut X-Men Origins: Wolverine in theaters everywhere on May 1st this summer. Find more posts in Hype , To Watch Discover more on ZergNet: i hate how they messed with deadpool in this movie D6 Aw man, the Deadpool one is totally ripped off from Full Metal Jacket. Lame... RPD Deadpool's was the best. I really hope he gets a bunch of screentime... nate How have they messed with Deadpool? He didn't take the name Deadpool until after Weapon X fucked him up. Right now, he's just Wade Wilson, trying to get Weapon X to fix him up. zetsu Those are interesting little character profiles. Damn shame I have to sit through those annoying ads to watch them. Darunia Deadpool is in the movie for like 5 minutes.

Trey I really hope this movie doesnt fall flat..at least not liked the leaked version Syphous Ryan Reynolds said in an interview that he wanted to make sure people understood that Wade Wilson is in this movie, NOT Deadpool. Fuelbot I thought Wolverine was supposed to be a badass. He has no balls in this movie. James Video won't play Shaun This movie will end up being a pretty decent action movie. It's straight up and easy to follow. Most really hardcore Wolverine fans will be disappointed for this is the Wolverine right from the movies and not the Wolvie you know and love from the comics. Things have changed, times have changed and if you take this film for what it is then you should enjoy your time. Eat your popcorn and watch it hit the fan. If you go into this thing expecting the definitive wolverine movie, you won't get it here... I actually have an idea for a Wolverine movie that I want to do down the line in the future and my thinking behind it was to come up with an epic idea for one Wolverine movie. If there was going to be one Wolverine movie, what would it be? Well, I have that idea and script in my head. Hopefully, someday I'll get the rights to make it...

It'll basically be the Dark Knight of Marvel movies. Well... This seems sooo lame... Look like some reality show videos... I had great expectations for this movie... But every footage that is out it seems worst than X3... Voice of Reason ....Wow ....as in the bad-wow These profiles encourage my thinking that this movie will be pretty weak n' cheeseball. Am I the only one who thinks these look lame? Like bad-summer-movie-using-flash-to-hide-crap lame. Also, as excited as i was for Riggins to take the deck on Gambit, my excitement for this character has totally dwindled. Heck, they all seem pretty weak. Damndamndamn. NeoSlyfer MARVEL has many alternate realities , if you are a comic fan don't expect the MARVEL 616 Universe adaptation here.

well having seen the leaked raw film i need to voice my concerns guys why do you keep messing with characters the millions have loved for a looooong time first lets talk about a few things (no worries i will try to keep a hush hush profile for those that hasnt seen the leaked film) pros: great sabretooth; solid strong well played sinister and bloodthirsty great wraith; i dont know why but he looks right on spot in total sync with the comic-self ok gambit; nice casting, he has that charm but where is the accent that we have loved ???? ?? agent Zero; well in the books agent Zero is one cool dude, and a good one why change him into a strictly follw the orders without any remorse???

loveable silverfox; well it has to be silverfox 😀 and she was gorgeous, aside from Cate from Lost she has the most beautiful twinkling set of eyes i really would want to lose myself in 😀 nice action scenes cool effects (ok some look cheasy but gotta keep in mind that it was a raw copy almost none of the cg were completed let alone mastered) within the movie realm good tie ins, explanations and the cons: i really hate it when you guys who are in the chair that says action ruin the characters, storyline, origins etc why did you have to go and ruin a perfectly cool character such as deadpool???? why?? up until the weapon 11 program he was perfrect. wiseass motor mouth that just wouldnt stop and the scene where we see him go nuts with the twin katanas and slice a bullet in two so that he would get the pervs directly behind him.. those were good scenes and a perfect deadpool but why ruin him with your opinion of a perfect soldier which i believe looks like shit with absolutely no charisma and looks like fresh out of a B creature movie??

but we also get to see great deal of young mutants who we may/will see in the future flicks the escape from the program scene where we lifetime fans have memorised scene by scene was very weak in intensity compared to the graphic novel Weapon X by BWS i completely went nuts at the 20 sec escape scene it was a total dissappointment i've really wanted to get a berserk blood red scene with bodies piling up one on another but still the two sets of three blades slicing the steel door in a X way was good 😀 and we really didnt need the Ma and Pa Kents 😀 but help clear the bike and the jacket origins in the first x men flick 😀 well cant wait to see the polished and finished movie in theatres hugh jackman is the Wolverine afterall 😀 him alone i can go to see in the whole movie 😀 cheers Superluke I watched this two weeks ago. and i was disapointed. Lets go transformers two! tom seriously full page ads? is this site turning into another imdb? Joel I'm amazed that there are still comic book fans who think Hollywood is making these movies for them.

"guys why do you keep messing with characters the millions have loved for a looooong time" -Comic book circulation (for the handful of most popular titles) are barely measured in the 100's of thousands. So stop thinking that there are millions of fan-boys out there looking for a true adaptation of the comic. -Hollywood makes movies for exactly one reason... to make money. -Hollywood makes money by appealing to as wide an audience as possible. -You've had years, if not decades, to absorb the source material. Hollywood has to make a movie that someone who has never heard of Wolverine, the X-men or even superheroes can understand at the end of 90-120 minutes. I'd love to see a 100% true to the source material X-men movie as much as the next comic geek, but please for the love of all that is holy try to understand that the ONLY way it will ever happen is if one of us becomes a billionaire and decides to blow a huge wad of cash making a movie that only a handful (in terms of global audience) people will watch and enjoy.

Shaun I agree with #19 on several points, but I'd also love to see a true to the source X-Men movie, which I already have written and planned out in my head. It is actually more of a Wolverine movie but it ties together the X-men as well and can be a big hit. I am going to be a high end movie producer/writer/director and the movie will be viewed by more than a handful for several reasons. The X-men movies and super hero movies and this wolverine movie are already setting the foundation of my future audience. People are getting more and more into comic movies with each year that passes and with every comic based movie that comes out. (Movies like the Dark Knight help tremendously) I will also establish my own audience with the movies I make, and with the money I accumulate, I will gain the rights to Wolverine and the X-Men and make my own adaptation (probably not 100% faithful, but damn close to the source material.) It is all about satisfying the masses and making it accessible to a wide audience, I agree with that, but hollywood doesn't has it's eyes open. Fox particularly doesn't really understand the passion and dedication of film making.

Their movies often lack soul, especially their adaptations of beloved characters and stories. All it takes is the right film maker, with the right vision, under the right circumstances. It's a lot to come together at once, but if one is determined, nothing is impossible. Eric Well having read the interveiw the Ryan about how Wade Wilson is in the movie and not deadpool, I'm mildly let down. If anyone has read the deadpool comics(even the crappy line where he teamed up with cable)as much as I have you would know that while Wade was a wise ass before he went into weapon X he didn't get disfigured till the artifcial healing factor Weapon Xgave he bonds with his cancer. Now I'm interested to see if that plays out in the movie. Maybe as it goes along his skin will slowly disfigure and It will show him going crazy and being Hauled off to The Shed by Dr. Killjoy(ha ha Francis) so that they could open up a way for there to be a DEADPOOL movie would be a dream come true Jay What’s with the "film not yet rated?" I thought it was PG13?

From what I heard, you will notice on the new trailers things that weren’t in the work print (i.e. whole new action sequences, new Gambit and Deadpool). I think this was a calculated leak, and they have "fixed" this movie. 2+2=4? The movie sucks big time, and the prefect example is that video of Deadpool with ripped off line from Full Metal Jacket. It's above Fox to make anything original. sd Great? More proof that there's comic movie burnout in the air... Even with a gun pointed at me, I wouldn't watch this pos. Can we let the comics be comics and move on to something new? Dan Well, I don't want to see the movie anymore now. I do however have a sudden, intense urge to eat some Bertolli's... dave13 so the trailers made me want to see this... and these... well they fall kinda flat... maybe I won't see it opening night... :/ Spider94 thank you for using mtv because i cant watch the videos Stevo #23 I couldn't agree more. I saved Deadpool for last because I have the worst fear for what they were going to do to him.

I think the Full Metal Jacket rip off sealed the deal. Egh Egh I watched the leaked version man it kind of sucked especially the story line and they definitely murdered Deadpool I'm talking about character wise and his story in the movie. When I first heard that they were making a Wolverine Origins I was excited and I would view other people's comments on it would suck and would compare it to TDK and I felt people have to give it a chance but now that I seen the leaked version I kind of agree with the people that opposed it. I was disappointed I feel like why does fox have to always F*** up every comic book character and I wish Fox would just give back the the full rights to Marvel and I agree with #19 it is mainly about money. But I'm still going to go see it at the movies to see the final version hopefully it is 100% better. And idk if anyone has notice if they changed the movie title making it seem as if they are going to make more x-men origins movies and yes I have heard of the Magneto, Deadpool, and Gambit spin-offs just saying. Hey Ya Wow...while the profiles weren't, dare I say horrible? Gambit's was.

Man that was lame and cheesy. The others while cheesy had a cheesy charm so w/e. Will I see this? If my dad pays for it but I'm kinda scared now with the reviews and there are other things I'd rather spend money on at the theaters. Cory Wow, you have officially seen about as much screen time for gambit and deadpool as you do throughout the entire movie!.... ok so that might be a slight stretch, but using these characters as advertising is just going to hurt them in the long run seeing that play little role in the movie MTV suck. I found them somewhere else: Gambit: Victor Creed/Sabretooth: Wolverine: Wraith: Wait Wilson: Still looking forward to it, have held off from watching the leaked version. bassbin mtv not putting out in the uk. zaney. all the haters up there made my mind for me. gonna stay in and watch the poonies instead Bobby Hill This is just another Fox poop project. Fox already released Dragonball: Evolution isn't that enough crap for one year? No I guess not. This movie isn't out yet so Fox still has one more pathetically made film to show us.

I've been saying that this movie sucks and now thanks to the workprint people saw this movie for what it is. A movie with a senseless and horribly paced narrative with characters that act like cardboard cut outs. Now lets move on to the films with potential this year. (Star Trek, Terminator, Ninja Assassin,ROTF) RPD I really hope nobody expected a true-to-the-comics film. It ain't happenin'... Silence Great, another video that I cannot view because of my region. PLEASE, If someone can get ahold of these videos with another video player please let us know. Silence, the links are there in post 32. Spider The flick will, no doubt, be geared toward a wide audience! I understand that things have to be altered and adapted to appeal to the masses! Although many posting here say otherwise, I'm still checkin' this flick opening night! Gambit has a ridiculous hat and Deadpool has a too nice face, but it will work... Logan rocks. And this movie will be better than the Dragonball Evolution gag. The Awsome Norwegian Dude With Sunglasses THAT WAS OFF THE HOOK! AWESOME!!!

NeoSlyfer Why the fuck the people who hace seen WORK PRINT VERSION of the film are speaking about it ??? Jon Von Noibauten Nice, all videos won't play outside USA, GG ???? i seen the movie no lie just trust me but it wasn't all finished. it is amazingly good and if you still don't believe me *Spoiler* that girl that wolverine loves is actually trying to capture him and she isn't really dead mrmr i hope the release has more footage/storyline. cuz the origins i saw was.... eh, at best. Fisherr OMFG,Ryan Reynolds he was born for the character. This 30 sec. profiles aren't bad i am still gonna check out the movie in the opening night. Can't wait another 15 days and @#42 i am outside the US and the 5 vids worked fine. N #19 hit it, the rest of you need to get the hell over how they messed with your favorite character or how they arent doing things exactly the way you like. Blake These videos were rubbish. This film would have been a financial loss for FOX regardless of whether it leaked on the web or not. Roberto Dinamite WILL.I.AM.

LOL moviekidmike Deadpool is going to do more with 5-10 minutes of screentime that all of the other people combined over the course of this 2 hour film. moviekidmike And by the way, you simply CANNOT judge an UNFINISHED print of the movie that I bet was put together before the re shoots were done. As someone who is only somewhat familiar with these characters, this looks like an AMIZING film. No it won't be TDK, nothing ever will be so get over it. From what I've seen they have absolutely NAILED Deadpool and Ryan Reynolds is the best actor the could have chosen. WEAPON X They need to place all the focus on Wolverine and Sabretooth. Everyone else can wait for their own spinoff to be developed. But all of these were so freakin cool it boggles my mind. WEAPON X Jay A few days ago I saw a TV spot that featured Emma Frost, Cyclops and a bunch of other mutants escaping from [seemingly] Weapon X program. Did anyone else see that? It was pretty badazz, it featured a TON of Emma Frost - and I haven't seen it since! Not even online. Any help?

DeVaughn Taylor ok, gambit is the tightest x-men there is, im so glad they finally put him in one of the movies and dead pool looks sweet, i always thought ryan reynolds would make a good super hero and never heard of wraith but i love teleporters, cant wait to see the movie wraith is just like the moviw named jumper Trisha X-Men Origins: Wolverine | X-Men Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Tahyna Tozzi as Emma Frost Sequel(s) Gavin Hood (Director of X-Men Origins: Wolverine) said that there could be a sequel, which may be set in Japan. Such a location was the subject of Claremont and Miller's series, which was not in the first film as Jackman felt “what we need to do is establish who Logan is and find out how he became Wolverine." This is definitely coming out. A Deadpool spin-off is possibly coming out too, but the release date is not known. Ryan Reynolds is possibly returning as Deadpool. This could have been cancelled or stalled, though. X-Men Origins: Magneto is also possibly coming out too, but the release date is not known. Actors in their twenties will be hired.

This could have been cancelled or stalled, though. Team X Members Stryker (William Stryker), the leader of the team. The only non-mutant in the team. Wolverine (Logan), a mutant with healing powers and long, powerful claws. Sabretooth (Victor Creed), Wolverine's half brother also with healing powers but instead of claws, has sharp nails that can cut through metal. Deadpool (Wade Wilson), a show-off, dudy-head, talkative mutant with superhuman abilities and an expert with guns and swords. Agent Zero/Maverick (David North), a show-off Asian mutant with superhuman abilities and an expert with guns. The Blob (Fred Dukes), a quiet, indestructible mutant. Wraith (John Wraith), Wolverine's only friend in Team X. He has teleporting powers. Also, like Wolverine, he doesn't kill. Bolt (Chris Bradley), a mutant who can control anything with electricity, but cannot shoot, absorb, move or convert it. Plot Wolverine is a Spin-Off Movie which shows Logan's past - before he joined the X-Men. The film is mostly set in 1981 (20 years before the first X-Men film).

1845: It shows him and Sabretooth discovering they are half brothers, after an incident where he discovers his bone claws and they find out both their father had slept with Logan's mother. 1864 to 1975: Then it shows him and Sabretooth taking part in the American Civil War, World Wars I & II, and Vietnam, before they are recruited to William Stryker's special Team X. 1979 to 1985: But after a mission, Wolverine quits after he is disgusted with the team's actions, only to find out six years later (after Team X broke up) that after he has settled down with a woman in the remote Canada rockies, someone is hunting down their team. He realises too late it is Sabretooth who kills the woman he loves. He chases after him and gets in a fight with him, which Creed wins. Stryker then approaches Logan and offers to cover his skeleton in Adamantium (a very powerful metal compound that Stryker had created using a meteor fragment), telling Wolverine he will give him the tools to defeat Sabretooth.

The procedure succeeds, but Logan overhears Stryker saying they will erase his memory. With this, he runs from the testing facility, furious he was tricked. But he takes cover in a home of two old farmers. But they are later killed by Agent Zero as Stryker is attempting to kill him. Wolverine takes down Zero and destroys his helicopter, looking for his old friend John Wraith (also a former Team X member who quit a few months later after Wolverine left), asking where Sabretooth is. Wraith says Fred Dukes (another former Team X member), aka The Blob, may know, and after Wolverine fights him, he finds out that a mutant named Remy LeBeau escaped from an island that Stryker is using to experiment on mutants During all this, an army general that gave Stryker money to give Wolverine the Adamantium (500 million to be exact) told Stryker he is shutting Stryker down because Wolverine escaped. Then Stryker kills him in anger with a sword. Only Stryker and the army general were in the room then.

After this, Wolverine and John Wraith, who wanted to come with him, finds Sabertooth in Las Vegas and with the metal in his bones he is able to defeat Sabretooth, but fails to save John Wraith, who was just killed by Sabretooth. Sabertooth runs away and Logan eventually gets to the Island with Remy LeBeau, aka Gambit. On the Island he finds out his lover, Kayla Silverfox, is still alive and she was in league with Stryker the whole time. He also finds out she is a mutant and her power is telehypnosis (the power of persuasion). Then he leaves angrily but hears her scream and comes back to fight Sabretooth. He defeats him but instead of killing him, knocks him out. He then finds out that Kayla was forced to trick him - Stryker had her sister hostage at the island. Wolverine then frees all the mutants being held prisoner, including Kayla's sister. Stryker, meanwhile, activates Weapon XI (another former Team X member who was experimented on), aka Deadpool, who has the powers of healing, laser-blasting and teleportation because of the mutant experiments, and tells it to kill Wolverine.

Wolverine then tells Kayla to get the mutants off the island, while he distracts Deadpool. The mutants are fired upon, but Cyclops, one of the rescued mutants, takes care of the people shooting. Then Professor Xavier (a mutant psychic) leads the mutants out using his mind - Kayla stays behind because she is wounded by a bullet. After a brief fight in the warehouse, Wolverine climbs up one of the Reactor Pylons just before Sabretooth recovers and arrives to save him. Then him and Sabretooth fight back to back to defeat Deadpool, which they achieve by cutting his head off. Sabretooth then leaves, and wounded Kayla crawls towards Wolverine. As Wolverine is heading off into the sunset with Kayla, Stryker shoots him with an adamantium bullet in the brain which affects and erases his memory. Silverfox, using her power of telehypnosis, tells Stryker to "walk until your feet bleed...and then keep walking." She dies of the gunshot wound and Wolverine regains consciousness, gets up, then doesn't remember anything, and runs from the Island.

Sabretooth is also never seen again in the movie after he helped Wolverine and jumped down from the Reactor Pylon after Weapon XI/Deadpool was defeated. However, Professor Xavier leads the rescued mutants, using his powers, to his private jet, offering them to join him at his home, and becoming the first mutants at his new mutant school, despite Wolverine, their rescuer, not knowing this. In the end, after the Credits, Stryker gets arrested for the murder of the army general he committed earlier. During all this, also after the Credits, Weapon XI/Deadpool heals in the Reactor Pylon and grabs his head... NOTE: To see a summary and extra information of this movie, go to the Movies and Video Games page. Questions If the Adamantium was supposed to cover his whole skeleton, wouldn't Wolverine's teeth be covered with Adamantium? Teeth aren't considered bone (skeleton) and are made up of different materials, so this could feasibly not be a plot hole. Why couldn't the mutants that Stryker captured escape out of their cells? Emma's skin can turn to diamond (which can cut through almost anything) and Scott Summers/Cyclops has his laser.

There are also a dozen more mutants there, and at least one of them could also escape. The only mutant who escaped was Gambit (he can make objects explode). If you watched the movie you can clearly see that the mutants powers were being suppressed. If Wolverine was a veteran in every single war since the Civil War, wouldn't he be able to tell that his wife wasn't really dead? He also has super-sense from his mutant powers so he would be able to detect the heartbeat (even if it's slow) and the fake blood. Take into account that his wives' mutant ability was suggestion by touching, she could easily fool his senses in to believing her dead with it. Why did Agent Zero shoot the two farmers and lure Wolverine out of the barn, then blow up the barn, when he could have blown up the barn in the first place when all three were in there? He shot the civilians and blamed Wolverine for it as an excuse to kill him. Plot Holes and Goofs Plot Hole: How come when Gambit escaped the Island and hid in a casino, Stryker couldn't find him but it only took Wolverine less than a day to find Gambit?

Plot Hole: How did the Professor not know about Wolverine rescuing the mutants (wouldn't the mutants tell him? Or wouldn't he have sensed Wolverine's presence using his powers?)? If he did he would have got Wolverine to follow him or he would have recognised or thought he was familiar? Goof: In the part where Wolverine is escaping after he got the Adamantium and he cut an "X" in an door using his claws, wouldn't the four squares in the middle of the "X" fall off? They were floating in the air for a second and didn't show it falling down. This is a very obvious goof. Goof: When Gambit blasted Wolverine through a wall using his cards, the hole is big when Wolverine lands on the ground. But when Gambit enters the hole, the hole is small, just big enough for a person to fit through. Then after that, the hole gets big again. There was huge difference between them. This is also a very obvious goof.

Goof: In Vietnam when Wolverine unsheathes his claws they make a metallic sound even though he has no adamantium yet Goof: Wade's sword disappears (during his close up shot) while he's in the elevator and we never see him unsheath it. Video Game This is the first X-Men game that uses the movie-that-it-is-based-on's storyline. You can only use Wolverine. The PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC version is rated MA. The PlayStation 2, Wii and PSP version is rated M. The DS version is rated PG. Hugh Jackman (the actual Wolverine from the X-Men movies) voices Wolverine again, Liev Schreiber (the actual Sabretooth from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 2009) voices Sabretooth again, Dave Florek voices Stryker, April Stewart voices Kayla Silverfox, Will.i.am (the actual Wraith from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 2009) voices Wraith again, Robert Wu voices Agent Zero, Gregg Berger voices the Blob, Chris Edgerly voices Gambit, Steven Blum voices Deadpool and Anna Graves voices Mystique.

Question: Who played the title character in the 2009 film 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'?
Answer: HUGH JACKMAN